A display featuring items representative of Emporium's early settlement, including an Ionian Greek lead letter plaque from around 500 BCE. It contained a private commercial correspondence regarding the trade of wine and other commodities. Written in the Ionian dialect, it is one of the most important epigraphic documents of the Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula.

Exhibited at the Emporion Archaeological Museum, Catalonia, Spain.

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